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Just then were heard the wheels of the drag, and in rushed one of the boys, grasping Eleonora's skirts, and proclaiming, "We've got the grub! Oysters and a pie! Oh my!" "Satisfactory!" said the friend. "But let go, Ducky, you are rumpling Miss Vivian." "She's coming to see the quarion! You promised, Lena! Here's a jolly crayfish! He'll pinch!"

He loved the precarious bustle on Grub Street; he was of that adventurous, buoyant stuff that rejects hum-drum security and a pelfed and padded life. The romance of the commuter's train and the suburban street, of the delicatessen shop and the circus and the snowman in the yard these were the familiar themes where he was rich and felicitous.

Stumpy lost his "grub" by misadventure, but found somebody else's, withstood a fierce argument for ten minutes and finally pacified his opponent by "finding" still another issue. Hoarse orders sent men probing about for their rifles and assortment of equipment. The Ten Hundred filed out.

Casey looked at me steadily for a minute and then came out with what was really in his mind. "You stake me to grub and a couple of burros an' let me go hunt the Injun Jim, and I'll locate yuh in on it when I find it. And if I don't find it, I'll pay yuh back for the outfit. And, anyway, you're makin' money off'n my bad luck right along, ain't yuh?

No grub meant practically capital punishment, though there was a slim chance, all depending on the season of the year. Having disposed of Arizona Jack and watched him out of sight, the population turned from the bank and went to work on its claims all except Curly Jim, who ran the one faro layout in all the Northland and who speculated in prospect-holes on the sides.

"You'll have to take the other team, Joe, and pull up the Stewart till you find them Indians. Then you come back with a load of meat. You'll get here long before Henry can make it from Sixty Mile, and while you're gone there'll only be Daylight and me to feed, and we'll feed good and small." "And in the morning we-all'll pull for the cache and pan snow to find what grub we've got."

At the end, he is possessed of a grub list but little different from that of his Rocky Mountain trips. Some few items he has cut down; and some he has substituted; but bulk and weight are the same. For his three months' trip he has four or five chop boxes all told. And then suddenly he finds that thus he has made a reduction all along the line.

"I hope that your majesty will forget the rude remarks that I made at the time you lay in the six-sided cell," said the old Bee, with a respectful bow. "I forgive you," said the new-baked Princess. "Fetch me some more honey." A little time after the Grub was full grown, and stepped out of her cell as big and as beautiful as the Bees could wish.

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"It is not safe to talk here." "There isn't any one following us," said Tom's companion reassuringly. "If we can just get some old clothes and some grub we'll be all right." "Zere is much danger," said the girl, unconvinced. "We are always watched. But you are friends to Armand. We must help you."